On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:36:44PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 18:30 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I'll try the vesa drivers if I get desperate.
Before you do that try
Option "NoAccel"
In the device section of xorg.conf
Not a fix because you have now lost 2D hardware acceleration but it will at least steer you in the right direction if it makes a difference.
Yes, that's fixed it, thank you. I had to add that to my xorg.conf when I did my first installation (of ubuntu 8.10 beta) but later Intel drivers seemed to have fixed the problem and I was able to take the Option "NoAccel" out again. It would seem that they've maybe re-introduced the bug. I'll have to keep a watch on the Intel drivers and see if a fix appears.
I did a clean install of xubuntu because I'd decided to move to xfce and wanted to get rid of the mixed up mish-mash of gnome and xfce I had got into.
I still get the "Can not display this mode" when I try to switch to a console using CTRL-ALT-Fn - and now it won't switch back to X either!
However at least X doesn't crash and bring the whole world down around me, having done CTRL-ALT-F1 and being stuck there I was able to ssh into the system and kill the X server to unscramble things.